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Telferner, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Victoria census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77988. The Survey maps it on the Victoria East quadrangle. It stands 92 feet above sea level.

Telferner within Victoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

147 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Telferner between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,908 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined74
Debris and open burning52
Equipment and vehicle use14
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1686 FIRE
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBIG BEND FIRE
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD FIRE
6 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEEKEND
26 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHILL ROAD FIRE
2 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOROTHY ROAD FIRE
18 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 59 SHOULDER
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1686 @ RAVEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Victoria County

Storms near this place

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Telferner in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2012LightningTelferner$5,000Victoria Advocate reported lightning struck an oil tank on Beck Road East north of Inez. The lightning started a fire from the vapors within the tank. The fire was extinguished without any damages or injuries.
June 2025Heavy RainTelferner-Four inches of rain have fallen in the past 2 hours.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTelferner-Personal weather station reported a wind gust of 66 mph.
April 2023HailTelferner-Public reported ping pong ball sized hail occurred at the Telferner Grocery and Market.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Telferner-Victoria Fire Marshall reported a tornado lasted less than a minute to the southeast of Victoria Regional Airport near Farm to Market Road 1686 and Gin Road.
September 2010Flash FloodTelferner-Heavy rain caused flooding along Benbow Road near Inez.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindTelferner-A small 12' by 12' metal shed was destroyed by straight line winds. Winds were estimated close to 60 mph. The nearby Victoria Regional Airport reported a wind gust of 55 mph.
March 2006HailTelferner-no account filed
May 2004Funnel CloudTelferner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Victoria County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wood Hi4.6 miles8
Dupre6.4 miles9
Inez6.6 miles8
Victoria6.7 miles9
Guadalupe6.9 miles8
Hughes8.0 miles8
Chipley8.8 miles9
Dacosta8.9 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on TelfernerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7697197The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1369694. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.